"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." Andrew Jackson

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Montana Senator Jennifer Fielder's presentation on the American Lands Council proposed transfer of public lands. This video talks about the history of how the founding fathers designed transfer of lands to the states and the current need as well as reasons for state's to manage our Federal lands

Saturday, October 25, 2014

What do you get with cross-corruption of the elephants
and donkeys? A massive Hippopotamus to squash your vote and mine.

How can this happen? Congress intentionally set up a
system to better finance and control elections. Let me explain the
congressional mechanics of the system that will flourish in the 2014 and 2016
elections unless voters take it down, in the same manner that voters dismantled
the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, which was to be a more manageable new
voter pool for the donkeys and elephants.

The financial instrument was sired
by Senator John McCain who sponsored the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988
to create a separate, tax-exempt monopoly that would soon pump billions back
into both political parties. The current annual honeypot to play with here is
over $20 billion. To ensure that the flow of money gets back to Congress the
Federal Election Commission determined in May 2005 that tribal governments are not governments, and therefore could
freely participate in and contribute funds to political parties, incumbents or
candidates. No other governments
may write a check to a political party or candidate, but hey—Congress who
giveth the monopoly to tribal governments must benefit from the profits.

To ensure that such funds are
undisclosed, Senator McCain, also the sire of the infamous 2002 McCain-Feingold
Campaign Finance Reform Act diligently, even belligerently refused to require
that tribal governments disclose, as must all other contributors, financial
contributions to political parties or election candidates. Pretty neat. Create
the separate tax-exempt monopoly, spread it across hundreds of private tribal
governments who are not answerable to American voters, and then permit them, as
the only governments allowed to
participate in America’s elections without transparency…and Voila! In
California alone, tribal political influence has overtaken even the labor
unions. I am not speaking of the full and necessary right of every individual
American Indians citizen to vote. I am
speaking only of the unregulated participation of separate tribal governments
in America’s elections.

More recently, the U.S. Supreme
Court partially improved the First Amendment playing field for campaign
activities when it ruled in a 2010 case, Citizens
United v. Federal Election Commission, that the First Amendment prohibits
the government from restricting independent political expenditures by
non-profit organizations. The principles
articulated by the Supreme Court in the case have also been extended to corporations, labor unions and
other associations. The Citizens United case opened a larger voice for countering the giant
tribal monies flowing into federal and state elections. The case
did not involve the federal ban on direct contributions from corporations or unions
to candidate campaigns or political parties, which remain illegal in races for
federal office. No one’s wild about the Citizens
United case, but the result at least lessened the national power of tribal
government participation in America’s elections.

So that’s the financial pathway,
but at least we each still have our own vote, right? Wrong.

Remember that tribal governments
existed long before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but tribal government
conduct in elections is not addressed
in the Voting Rights Act designed to assist minority voters, nor has tribal
government conduct in elections been addressed in any subsequent federal legislation respecting minority voters.
Why is this a problem? The need of better access for minority voters is worthy
and not the issue here. But when a separate government controls one minority,
and its individual minority (Native American) voters can be coerced into bloc
voting, that minority becomes a renegade “swing” vote. And the “swing” goes to
the party most cooperative in close elections across the country.

There is an additional worry. In
many, if not most states that host Indian reservations, a tribal identification
card is the sole identification needed for a tribal member to register to vote.
This would be fine if tribal governments were also required to provide accurate
lists of their enrolled members to Secretaries of States or county officials
that regulate and enforce elections. Tribes are not required to do so, and
states have absolutely no legal way to verify or authenticate a tribal
identification card used for voter registration. Why is this is a problem?
States can verify state driver’s licenses, and other state identification
sources. But what if tribal
governments were to issue to a single voting tribal member, an identification
card in an Indian name, an English name, and perhaps a maiden name as well? If
I am a registered voter, and I have one vote, but my tribal neighbor may have
more than one vote, and then votes in accordance with tribal government instruction,
what does that do to my vote? It is part of the Hippopotamus that squelches my
vote and yours.

This system has been in serious
play in evenly divided states for more than two decades already, and is
becoming even the more severe in terms of financial and voting political
outcomes. Need some examples? How about the very close election that
transferred a Senate seat from Slade Gorton to Maria Cantwell? Or the 130-vote
difference on a third recount that provided Washington State with Governor Gregoire
instead of Dino Rossi? The State Capitol of Olympia has been Santa Claus for 31
tribal governments for years now. Property and business tax losses and state
revenue flowing to these tribes must be offset by the rest of Washington
taxpayers.

Another egregious example exists in
Montana. Before the November 2006 elections, the Crow Indian tribe passed a
tribal legislative directive, endorsing a slate of tribal candidates for county government offices, and
announced, “We’re taking over Big Horn
County government.” The tribal legislation was full-page advertisement in
newspapers on and off the reservation, and mandatory tribal employee “feasts”
were held with shiny new tribal ID cards issued to tribal members up to and
through Election Day.

At two polling precincts within
the Crow Indian reservation, ballot boxes were left unlocked all day, a
non-tribal poll watcher ordered to leave, and at final count, all tribal
candidates handily won. It was a stunning and literal governmental coup. As a
result of the Big Horn County election in November 2006 enrolled tribal members
hold the county government seats of commissioners, the county attorney, the
county sheriff, the county judge, and the county clerk/recorder (oddly, the one
in charge of elections in Big Horn County). These tribal members now regulate
and conduct county government actions of land use, taxation, and law
enforcement that do not apply to tribal members within their reservation
boundary. Unfortunately, the Secretary of State of Montana has no enforcement
authority over polling precincts within Indian reservations. There are over 75
such polling precincts in Montana alone. But this shenanigan in Big Horn County
had national consequence as well.

The ballots in unlocked ballot
boxes on the Crow Indian Reservation provided over 800 votes to Senator John
Tester, along with an additional 1,100 votes from other polling precincts
within Montana Indian reservations. Senator Tester’s election shifted the power
of the entire Senate, contributed to Congress’s attitudinal shift about the War
in Iraq, and caused Senator Ben Nighthorse-Campbell to boast with such comments
as:

“And I
think too you know, and
I tell them literally every place I give talks on Indians now, I think
in one respect Indians can claim victory on the control of the United States
Senate. Because it worked like this [in the 2006 mid-term elections last
November]: they were down to the wire. The last senator whose votes were
counted was Jon Tester of Montana. They had the numbers up there and they know
it was Indians put him over the top. And Jon told me that too, he knows it too,
Indian people got him elected.

Well,
when you have the leadership and all the committee chairmanships and all the
stuff change because one senator got elected [putting Democrats in the
majority] - if Jon had not won that race, wouldn't have had a new president of
the Senate, wouldn't have had a new chairman of the different committees and
all that, right? So in a sense Indians can say that we got that man elected and
he's the one that tipped the scales, so we won the Senate.”[Ben Nighthorse-Campbell, Indian Country Today, June 15, 2007]

Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico,
South Dakota, Washington, and many other states across our election landscape
are very evenly divided between elephants and donkeys. Representing less than
1% of America’s population, the Hippopotami (tribal governments) politically
rule today, with financial and voting power that is silent, secret,
orchestrated by private tribal governments and further corrupts the elephants
and donkeys, neither of whom call the shots any more. Does this help explain
why both parties are now pandering to illegal immigration fans for a fresh and
more manageable voting population?

One would think that all the
perks obtained for over twenty years for tribes by Senator McCain would buy a
little loyalty. But having attempted even a mild limit to off-reservation
casinos, McCain has fallen from the tribal industry grace. Even BIA Assistant
Secretary Kevin Washburn finds no problem with verbally disrespecting Senator
McCain in public hearings. Wealthy tribal governments require that elephants
and donkeys remain loyal beasts of burden or they are immediately relegated to
the tribal glue factory. Just ask former
Senators Conrad Burns, Slade Gorton, Tom Daschle, or current Senator McCain.
Senators such as Jon Tester know exactly where their bread is buttered and
behave accordingly.

The congressionally created
Hippopotamus has tamed its masters, and the cost to you and me is the last
precious thing we have: our vote. One
man; one vote. This foundational principle must be unimpeded by out-of-control
tribal governments acting as a silent but controlling Third Political Party in
America’s elections.

What can you and I do about
this? Track the funding behind incumbents, candidates and current elected
officials. Be certain that elected representatives adhere to their Oath of
Office and abandon their Stockholm Syndrome behavior toward tribal governments.
Demand that not a single ballot box or polling precinct be located on land that
lacks full and forceful authority and enforcement of the Secretary of State.
And these actions must be done quickly and constantly to bring One Person – One
Vote back to reality in this country.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

THE CLINTON SAGA.....Food for Thought: Just a quick refresher
course 'lest we forget' what has happened to many "friends" of the Clintons.1- James McDougal - Clintons convicted
Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary
confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.2 - Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern
was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder
happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in
the White House.3 - Vince
Foster - Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary
Clinton at Little
Rock's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the
head, ruled a suicide.4 - Ron
Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to
have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation
reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot
wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly
of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the
plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller commited
suicide.5 - C. Victor Raiser,
II - Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a
private plane crash in July 1992.6 - Paul
Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead
in a hotel room in Little
Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "dear friend
and trusted advisor".7 - Ed
Willey - Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993
deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed
Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped
her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several
Clinton fund
raising events.8 - Jerry Parks
- Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock. Gunned down
in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little RockPark's son said his father was building a
dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he
died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.9 - James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide.
It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people which contained names of
influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas10 - James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993
from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to
Whitewater..11 - Kathy
Ferguson - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead
in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a
suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going
somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the
Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for
Paula Jones.12 - Bill Shelton
- Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide
ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also
ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancee.13 - Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan
Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His
client was a convicted drug distributor.14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor
for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died
of three gunshot wounds.15 - Suzanne
Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was
Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head,
ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.16 - Paula Grober - Clinton's speech
interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in
a one car accident.17 - Danny
Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating MenaAirport
and Arkansas
Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of
his investigation.18 - Paul
Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at MenaAirport
with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June
22, 1993, in his WashingtonDC apartment. Had delivered a
report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.19 - Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater
investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. He
was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.20 - Barbara Wise - Commerce Department staffer.
Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died
November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the
Department of Commerce.21 - Charles
Meissner - Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang
special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane
crash.22 - Dr. Stanley Heard -
Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with
his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to
serving on Clinton 's advisory council personally
treated Clinton's mother, stepfather and brother.23
- Barry Seal - Drug running TWA
pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was no accident.24 -
Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. - Mechanic,
found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair
shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.25 - Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty.
His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.26 -
Hershell Friday - Attorney and
Clinton
fundraiser died March 1, 1994, when his plane exploded.27 - Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The
boys on the track" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena
Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of
death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2
boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case
died before their testimony could come before a Grand
Jury.

THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD
INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:28 - Keith Coney - Died when his motorcycle
slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.29 - Keith McMaskle - Died, stabbed 113 times,
Nov, 198830 - Gregory Collins
- Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.31 - Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and
found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.32 - James Milan - Found decapitated. However,
the Coroner ruled his death was “due to natural causes".33 - Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death
in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.34 - Richard Winters - A suspect in the
Ives/Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July
1989.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Yesterday April 24 – the headlines were ablaze with ‘racist’ accusations and allegations because words spoken by Bundy were taken out of context and meaning twisted. The source of his words were a candid video he made following the Saturday Celebration picnic at the Bundy Ranch April 19 More
of what Bundy said that expresses his thoughts:

“We've
progressed quite a bit from that day until now, and we sure don't want to go
back. We sure don't want the colored people to go back to that point. We sure
don't want these Mexican people to go back to that point. And we can make a
difference right now by taking care of some of these bureaucracies, and do it
in a peaceful way.”

Cliven Bundy is the target of Government agencies and 'media-propagandists' and 'glib personalities' set to miss-represent him. Cliven has Heart and is Principled, he does not have 'savvy' speech writers or a teleprompter. His observation of the 'Negro' condition could be applied to all under the boot-print of Big Government today. Herded into Cities to be dependent and subservient after 'supposed abolition' - instead of being free and self-determining people. Cliven's 'wondering' about Negro's as slaves only goes so far as to appreciate the rewards of rural living and roots of agriculture that the Bundy family has enjoyed for 100drds of years.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

One of the people out front in the fight to reclaim the land belonging to the states is Representative Ken Ivory of Utah. Ken came to Kalispell, Montana last week to enlighten us on what he is doing, and what we need to do, to wres back control of our own land.

By now, most everyone who is reading this is well aware of the insidious nature of the UN directed Agenda 21. If you need a refresher, click here. Much of the United States natural resources are contained in areas that would be considered rural. Is it for this reason that one of the prescriptions of Agenda 21 is to herd us into compact cities? The elite couldn't possibly want us out of Rural America so that they can have all of the resources to themselves... could they? You can make up your own mind on that one. The good news is that we have people like Kirk MacKenzie from Defend Rural America out there fighting to educate and motivate the masses. Kirk filled up a local hotel ballroom recently here in Kalispell, Montana.

I agree in spades with all ConCon proponents that our Nation is in very dire straits, and that we must do something soon to tame the runaway federal monster or give up on the idea of individual liberty. However, the Article V ConCon idea seems to me to be grasping at the ...wrong straw, for two primary reasons:

1) I don't imagine that a federal government which ignores the current Constitution would pay much more attention to an improved Constitution – at least it would quickly create workarounds for restrictions that block or reverse expansion of federal power, and

2) for the process to be ultimately successful depends on five, serial, political successes, political successes in a Nation which elected Obama as President.

These essential political successes would include:

a) The threshold number of states enacting exactly the same call;

b) A hostile Congress scheduling the ConCon in a timely manner and without monkeying up the process;

c) The people of the states electing the right type of ConCon delegates to enable success at the ConCon;

d) The ConCon's assembled delegates approving the right stuff (from our perspective); and

e) The threshold number of states approving the work of the ConCon.

I see each one of these necessarily serial steps as being unlikely to succeed. Linked in series, as they necessarily must be, I see the odds of ultimate success for the whole series as being effectively zero.

For example, even suppose we assign a 50% chance of success at each step (I wouldn't rate the odds that high). Arithmetically, that gives the entire effort a .015% chance of success. That's less than 2/100ths of 1% chance of success. Because of that, I hate to see the people of the US invest any effort or hope into this effort, as that might sidetrack or forestall other efforts with greater likelihood of success.

I don't quarrel at all with the ConCon proponents that we are in dire straights, and that we must rise to the occasion to DO SOMETHING, but I believe it must be something with a greater likelihood of success that doesn't waste what may be the last opportunity of this critical historical crossroads.

Certainly, I would be glad to be proven wrong in this assessment.

I do have an alternate idea which I believe would have a greater chance of success at leashing the federal monster than an Article V ConCon.See: http://www.marbut.com/csc

Monday, January 20, 2014

It seems there are those in support of Convention of the States and Article V Constitutional Convention are reaching out to MT Legislators via telephone that have misrepresenting my position about an Article V Constitutional Convention. If you have heard from anyone via telephone expressing that Lark is now in favor of such a foolish adventure as to call a Convention of the States to propose Amendments to our US Constitiution... be advised - they are Lying Liars.

Those who populate Government may be way off track of
following and adhering to the Constitution, however additional amendment(s) may
well give them MORE latitude not less, and of course the danger of its total
dissolution.

Of course the John Birch Society has long
advocated for the Constitution and our American Way of Life and strongly
opposes any call for an Article V Constitutional Convention.

Who is supporting this misadventure is more important to
know than who is opposed to it. Those supporting an Article V Con Con to
uncertain ends may be thought of as opposites politically on the surface. My
Alarm is raised when I see 'Council on Foreign Relations' and 'Trilateral
Commission' and George Soros' 'Open Society' amongst them - all known to be FOR
Ultimate Global Governance. I see that the new 'freedom movement' aka TEA
Party, has been infiltrated and co-opted by progressive forces, [which by the
way have been hovering since 2009] trying to misdirect, mislead, and make $hay$
as they may - of the increasing public dissatisfaction with corruption in
government.